To be specific I had store credit and asked him to pick something and apperanly he chose foolishly. I started reading it today and I really like the way MWS writes, I don't know what about it, but it's sort of refreshing.
Mine is the 1831 edition (by Penguin, with a comic book-like cover), but apparently the earlier edition is now preferred? Is it decisive, or more a matter of taste?
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I Feel like i messed up but my wife likes it thoughts?
Did this as a part of a drawing study and decided to finish it. I hope you like it !
Howdy! I’m an artist and I’ve been in love with this novel since I was a kid. Here are some of my sketches of how I envision the Creature. Never in my life have I wanted to adopt a fictional character more than this guy.
This little exchange always cracks me up.
found the son of frankenstein + chibi-ish frankenstein at second and charles for a great price. they look very nice on my shelves.
I'm going to go ahead and say it (we were all thinking it) Chapter 11 is peak storytelling. So full of the creature's personal accounts from THE first moment of gaining consciousness that I had to change my plans of covering Chapters 11 and 12 together. The poor thing was so very alone out there, cold and wretched, all because his maker couldn't face the implications of his own "ambitions."
Forced into Life and left alone to figure out even his own senses, but this also gave us some of the really nice "little" moments, like learning to distinguish his senses from each other and thus being able to visually recognize birds as the source of the many sounds and soungs he'd come used to hearing (not a fan of sparrows, though, I guess 🪦 rip to them). It's also very sad that humans running away when they see him is so far the BEST of personal interactions he's had with them, and when it wasn't that, it was just violence.
We'll see if I do Chapter 12 tonight, too, as I'd really like to get caught up after falling behind again (but after bad art days, other projects, real life stuff, and generally watching the world crumble to climate disasters, to say nothing of the man-made ones like greed and hatred, I just can't seem to find the flow I had when I first started listening 🤷🏿 not giving up, though).
From auction catalog notes:
Rare Edition of Important Gothic Novel
Shelley (Mary Wollstonecraft) Frankenstein: or The Modern Prometheus, 8vo, 2 vols. in one, L. (G. & W.B. Whittaker, Ave-Maria-Lane, London) 1823, Second Edn., (A New Edition) [XI, 249, 280] contemporary hf. calf, marbled boards, blind design paneled spine, mor. label. good copy. Ex. Scarce. (1)
Note: Second Edition of Mary Shelley's horror masterpiece, and the first to bear the author's full name and include her preface in which she briefly mentions the well-documented occasion on which she and her friends "amused ourselves with some German stories of ghosts, which happened to fall into our hands. These tales excited in us a playful desire of imitation."
The incredibly Scarce Second Edition of one of the most famous works in English literature; the first was published in 1818. Shelley penned this Gothic sci-fi blockbuster at the tender age of 19 after a literary gathering at Lord Byron's rented vacation manor Villa Diodati near Geneva. Often called the first of its kind, the ever poignant and thought provoking Frankenstein paved the way for science fiction writing. With its themes of loneliness and terror amid human technology gone awry, it continues to resonate deeply within popular culture.
Four Horsemen Figura Obscura
I drew this a couple years ago. One of my favorites. I absolutely LOVE the dramatic lighting. Reference image credit to Juras Rodionovas.
